According to the official classing Jumbo Visma and Ineos are stronger.
Haha, this sounds something like the FIFA official rankings. Watching this yearâs Tour UAE seems the best team going uphill. Pog often has good lead riders while Jonasâs boys hang on to his wheel. Ineos also seem to have good climbers but donât have a GC contender at this point so are irrelevant to tomorrow.
Donât think he has a choice at this stage, but Jonas has had an answer to everything so far. Canât see him losing more than 10 seconds
And so it looks - no long range crazy attack from Pog but surely heâll give it a lash if heâs got anything left (he looks spent but maybe hes bluffingâŚ)
Pog dropped. Jonas wins GC.
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How good is 2024 gonna be???!!!
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Could be Pogâs legs just arenât right bc of his rehab work. Too much time on the stationary, not enough on the road. Still, he was pretty damn strong for two weeks.
Pretty amazing. In the usual hyperbole of today, pundits were calling him the biggest talent yet. Nevermind Indurain and others. Now heâs beaten two years in a row.
Pog b2b, then Jonas b2bâŚ
Looking forward to seeing which 11 year old wins the next one!!
Can Gall take the stage - downhill looks technicalâŚ
Gall must take it but the gradient is BRUTAL
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Wow so Jonas puts 7:25 into Pog over the last two stages! May be just the incentive Pog needs to prioritise the Tour next season!
UAE are now above Ineos in second place to Jumbo-Visma.
I havenât seen enough this year however A Yates is âbetterâ than Kuss but after that itâs quite even after the team leaders.
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Just read an article that says he is starting to look himself, but still a long way off it.
I would be gobsmacked if he could compete with Jonas or Pog.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/06/sport/cycling-helmets-uci-review-spt-intl/index.html
Onlookers have likened a new bulging cycling helmet to something out of Star Wars, while others just think itâs plain ugly. But a leading cycling team hopes that its futuristic-looking design will lead to a âbig improvementâ in time trial performance.
That is as long as the design passes a review by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), cyclingâs global governing body.
Team Visma-Lease a Bike riders debuted the large helmet at the Tirreno-Adriatico prologue in Italy on Monday. Manufactured by Giro, the Aerohead II helmet has a sizeable front end and is almost as wide as a riderâs shoulders.
Although the outlandish design has prompted comparisons to stormtroopers and aliens on social media, Visma-Lease a Bike hopes that it will make riders faster in time trials
So fucking ridiculous.
No more so that whatâs proceeded it. Probably allows the rider to have a better neck angle, be less restricted and therefore push higher watts?? Something the likes of Fabian Cancellara with his flexibility had in previous generations will become more commonplace?
Milano-Sanremo.
The last 30kms of this race are just brilliant.
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Thanks @SBYM, will have to watch highlights.
Van Aert has had a bit of a coming together with the tarmac. Busted collar bone and ribs.
Probably dents his Tour prep a bit maybe.